-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Seriously , do n't believe everything you read on the Internet .

Intentionally or not , the latest round of misleading stories making viral waves has made it harder to tell truth from fiction .

Here 's a quick guide to some of the most viral fake stories this week :

Facebook fees

No , Facebook is not going to start charging you . Facebook even created a help page just to say this : `` Facebook is a free site and will never require that you pay to continue using the site . ''

The page then goes on to explain that , yes , you may pay money for some games and other apps you play on the site . And if you go over your mobile phone 's data limit while using Facebook , you 'll have to pay for that , too .

That still too vague for you ? Maybe leaves a little too much wiggle room ? Well , then , let 's try this entry under Common Myths About Facebook .

Question : Will Facebook ever charge for service ?

Answers : No . We will always keep Facebook a free service for everyone .

When contacted , a Facebook spokeswoman simply pointed to those two entries instead of providing a response . We 're guessing if someone had to answer this question for Facebook every time it came up , it would be a full-time job .

Obamacare and Ebola coverage

There 's no reason to think your health insurance would treat a case of Ebola any differently than it would any other illness because of Obamacare . But a false viral story making the rounds may have some people convinced otherwise .

And , for that , we can thank National Report .

That was where the most recent `` pay for Facebook '' story originated , and it 's where this doozy comes from , too .

National Report is a satire site , though it 's sometimes hard to tell if you just breeze through the headline and first few sentences of a story .

We all know The Onion is fake news . -LRB- Well , almost all of us , anyway -RRB- . But sites such as National Report and The Daily Currant are n't so well-known or , for that matter , nearly as funny .

In fact , the more cynical among us may think these sites are intentionally trying to drive traffic by pushing out seemingly real stories about hot topics .

You know ... like how a controversial government policy addresses an unprecedented and frightening , if isolated , disease outbreak .

NBA , NFL , Congress ... or none of the above ?

If you like football and you hate Congress , well , welcome to 97 % of the population of the United States . -LRB- Full disclosure : We made up that statistic . -RRB-

But if you responded to the NFL 's recent off-the-field troubles by sharing a post that shows that our lawmakers are bigger lawbreakers than our football stars , you fell for a fake .

The good people at Snopes , the Web 's BS meter since 1995 , are all over this one , as is PolitiFact .

The so-called statistics -- 36 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse , three have been in jail for assault , 84 were arrested for drunk driving in a single year -- change from version to version . But these figures all go back to a 1999 online article that provided no source for its statistics and named none of the supposedly corrupt members of Congress .

Under scrutiny , it was later retracted .

Sorry , Pluto 's still not a planet

But some smart people say it should be . So there 's that .

Space geeks everywhere were saddened in 2006 when Pluto lost its status as our solar system 's ninth planet .

So you can forgive them , perhaps for jumping the gun on social media when news appeared to hit recently that the tiny , chilly chunk of rock has been restored to its rightful place .

Call this one a combination of enthusiasm , confusion and exaggeration .

What actually happened was that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a September 18 debate on whether Pluto should be restored to its full glory and four days later released the results of a vote by the audience .

Pluto won .

But in reporting that event , which has no official influence , many blogs and news sites appeared to go a bit too far , at least with their headlines .

`` The People Have Voted : Pluto is a Planet ! '' Time blared . `` Pluto Is a Planet Again , According to Harvard Astronomers , '' another blog announced .

So you can see how some of us who grew up with `` Interplanet Janet '' rushed to the incorrect conclusion that we have `` nine planets large and small '' again .

Do n't microwave your iPhone

Thanks , 4chan !

When Apple 's iOS 8 , the new operating system for mobile devices such as its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus , rolled out this month , some of the online message board 's notorious pranksters greeted it by crafting a fake ad for a new service .

Wave , according to what we have to admit was a pretty authentic looking ad done in Apple 's trademark style , is a feature that `` allows your device to be charged wirelessly through microwave frequencies . ''

Just pop your phone in the microwave , and the battery will be all charged up .

We 'd like to believe no one actually fell for this one . So , if you know otherwise , just do n't tell us .

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Here are five fake stories making the rounds on Facebook

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The social media site has said repeatedly it will never charge users

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4chan had fun with a fake iPhone microwave app story

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Congress has its problems , but a viral list of crimes is phony